Sentences Project

Sentences Project

• 3.
   A completesentence must: › Have a subject  The subject tells who or what does the action. › Have a predicate  The predicate contains the verb and tells what the action is.  A sentence is a group of words that has a complete and independent thought.
• 6.
   A sentencefragment is a group of words that doesn’t state a complete thought.  Sometimes a fragment is missing a subject.  Sometimes a fragment is missing a verb.  Other times, a fragment has a subject and a verb, but the thought still isn’t complete.
• 10.
   The lengthof a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not. Even a very short sentence could be a run-on.  Example: › Incorrect: The books are heavy don’t carry them. › Correct: The books are heavy. Don’t carry them.
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  Example: BUFFALO BUFFALOBUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO.  Buffalo! It's a noun! It's a city! It's a verb (meaning "to intimidate")! It plays on reduced relative clauses, different part-of-speech readings of the same word, and center embedding, all in the same sentence. Stare at it until you get the following meaning: "Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.“ (Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/240886/7-sentences-that-sound-crazy-but-are-still-grammatical)
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   A run-onis two or more sentences put together without the correct punctuation or capitalization.  A reader cannot tell where one sentence ends and the next one begins.